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trading cards 7- Dieguito el Malo    He is 48. He has spent 30 years in 18 different reformatories and prisons.

He has escaped 30 times.

Being the head of Copel (self-organized prison inmates), he organized an escape for 600 prisoners to the sewers using spoons. Eventually, 45 made it. (The most crowded in Europe’s history).

While he was in jail, he learnt how to read and write and wrote 2 books: “La fuga de los 45” and “Atraco a bancos”.

He was released in 1983 due to an official pardon. He got married and had two daughters. In 1992, he was imprisoned again because of an old crime. Three months later, his wife killed herself and his 5 year old daughter touched some cables on the street and got electrocuted.

“When I escaped, I robbed a bank to buy my wife and my daughter a niche”.

Last year, while he was out, he robbed a bank. The police officers caught him drinking a bottle of cava. November 2009 is the ending of one third of his sentence.